A Testament to Resistance and Radical Care: Nonprofit Sanctuaries for Migrants and Refugees
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2018
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Haverford College. Department of Anthropology
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Historically and especially in the past year under the Trump administration, the United States government has advanced anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that marginalize, fracture, and harm migrant communities. This project explores the responses of two multi-service provider organizations to state-initiated structural violence against immigrants, which primarily take the form of offering services and care designed to uplift and meet the needs of immigrants whose access to such services is unjustly restricted. I conducted fieldwork at Caminar Juntos’ after-school program as a weekly tutor over the course of two semesters, as well as at Santuario during a week that I spent volunteering with the organization. Through participant observation, interviews, and ethnographic readings of the media these organizations put forth, I explore how these NGOs disrupt the inferior citizenship that brown and black migrants in this country are relegated to, which is based on a hegemonic framing of citizenship that is heavily racialized and classed. I argue that Caminar Juntos and Santuario resist the United States’ anti-immigrant stance by practicing holistic health care, upholding a global citizenship rooted in migrant justice, and cultivating sanctuary from the climate of violence that migrants in this country are subjected to.